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L.A. is a big place, but if you want " wild shoreline, might check out Castaic lower lake. From the launching area if your facing the lake, although they call it a lagoon, walk to your right, there's a path that leads to the shoreline. Some good sized bass in there.

Welcome to BR. Where about do you plan on fishing..?

I started using my Diawa Fuego for my frog reel, but I changed over to my Tatula 100 which I'm going keep on my frog rod. I would echo what Bluebasser said.

White or a shad color. All my spinnerbaits have either chrome or gold big willow leaf blades, mostly in 1/2 oz, but I do have a few 3/8 and a couple of 1/4 oz. As an aside I had a easy 6 lb bass come flying out of the water about 2 feet in the air trying to clamp onto a white spinnerbait just before it hit the water. Didn't get her hooked, but it was cool to see that happen.

I'm a righty, have always casted with my right and reeled with my left for both spinning and casting. no switching hands..

Caught many, many fish on spinnerbaits, none of which had a trailer on it. Jigs 99.99% of the time, I use a trailer.

I've tried a bunch of attractants. The spray types seem to come off much sooner than the gel types do. I still have an old can of Bang craw. For years I use Megastrike, and I bought a tube of Bio Edge..The results are still not conclusive on the bio edge.

I'm in the hopping camp also. Although the height and timing could change at any time from slow to being aggressive. Depends on what the fish want.

All of my biggest bass, whether it's winter, spring or the heat of summer, have all come from 12:00 noon to about 2 pm. That goes for Big lakes to city park ponds, weird huh.

Nice work Koz. Looks really good there.

Go online to your states fish and game site, there should be a list of lakes, click on the lake your interested in and it should say where the parking lot is, or where to park.

Hmm, all of our lakes have parking lots. ?

To add to what Bluebasser said, I would look if possible for any structure, i.e. grass, any type of wood/trees, ect. As bass usually bigger bass will use structure to ambush prey, the biggest bass will find the Best spots. You didn't say what the depth is, nor what type of rods/reels you have. A couple of things you could try to get a bigger bite. I'd get a 3/8 or 1/2 oz Arky type skirted jig in a natural color, and grab a pack of Reaction Innovations sweet beavers. Cut off about 4 rings of the beaver and thread onto the jig. You can search here or youtube on how to do that. Then toss it into any cover/structure on your pond, be Patient, work it slowly, by casting out, let it hit bottom, then hop it about a foot off the bottom, make sure to watch your line, and keep on of your fingers on the line to detect any bites. There are other ways to try and catch them, but I would try this first. I've fished almost every pond in So. Cali, so I know catching fish can be frustrating, hang in there, and try to learn from every outing.

And.. it won't be long until your 7 yr. old utters those all to famous words, Dad Can I get a car, all my friends have one. ?

Camo, green and clear.

The OP hasn't been on here since 2015...

Spinning is what I use for my jerkbaits. 7'2" ml/f, size 2500 reel with 8 # test mono.

This ^^^^^^^^. Take a file to the hooks when in doubt.

Nice batch of reels, and the handle is on the Correct side. ?

Been using Maui Jim's for the last 8 years, yup the same pair. Well worth the cost imho.

I get a flu shot every year. Re: the corvid shot, my wife got 2, I decided why try to fix what isn't broke, so I passed, at least for now.

When I use to use YoZuri hybrid in 12 # test, always tied with a san Diego jam knot, never had any issues.

The only thing I can add is, I have 50 lb smackdown in stealth gray on my frog rod. From the get go, it cast really well. After using Diawa Samurai braid for years, I felt little difference in performance as far as casting, ect goes. I do feel that the Samurai was a bit limper than the smackdown.

On the flip side, all of my Diawa reels were pretty good out of the box, only had to oil the spool bearings on 1. My Shimano oth was totally dry.

I normally cut about an inch off of mine. I have some frogs where I trim the legs uneven, i.e. one side is about 1/4" shorter, it seems to work, but I don't notice a difference between the two.